Kirk Hamilton

The annual DICE convention brings a bunch of big-deal thinkers and video-game creators to Vegas to engage in high-minded talk about creativity and technology and innovation. There's also lots of free food, or so I hear.

There's ALSO an awards ceremony, since events like this tend to have an awards ceremony. It's happening tonight, actually, and you can watch the whole thing streaming right here, thanks to Machinima. It begins at 10PM Eastern.

Nominees include many of the usual suspects, with Game of the Year nods for Journey, The Walking Dead, Far Cry 3, Borderlands 2 and Kotaku's own game of the year, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.